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Question | Answer |
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3100 BC | Menes starts the 1st Dynasty and unites upper and lower egypt |
3100 to (2200) BC | Old Kingdom (6th dynasty) |
2700 to 2500 BC | Pyramids (3rd and 4th dynasties) |
2600 BC | largest pyramid built |
owner of largest pyramid | Khufu |
2200 to 2050 BC | 1st intermediate period |
2050 to 1800 BC | Middle Kingdom |
Capital for New and Middle Kingdom | Thebes |
1800 to 1570 BC | 2nd intermediate period |
1570 to 1090 BC | New Kingdom |
1486 to 1468 BC | Hatshepsut |
Importance of Hatshepsut | first female Pharoah |
1396 to 1361 | Amenhotep ( HEIGHT OF egypts empire!!!) (Largest egypts going to get) |
1361 to 1353 BC | Amenhotep 4th |
1352 to 1342 BC | King Tut |
1290 to 1244 BC | Ramses the great (A.K.A. Ramses the 3rd) |
1287 BC | Battle of Kadesh |
1182 to 1151 BC | Ramses the 3rd |
1050 BC to 31 AD | the pharoahs are not actually egyptians egypt is controlled by a whole bunch of other people |
31 AD | last dynasty |
Cleopatra | last Pharaoh |
Ahkamenaton | tried to change from a polytheistic to a monotheistic religion |
Imonhoptet | architect of first pyramid |
Djoser | owner of the 1st pyramid |
Hittites | fought at battle of Kadesh and signed a mutual aid treaty with egypt. |
Ramses the Great (Ramses the 3rd) | known for peace treaty and his massive building programs |
Howard Carter | FOUND KING TUTS Tomb intact!!! |
Tuts tomb found | 1922 |
Hyksos | Took over Egypt caused the 2nd intermediate period |
# of symbols in Egyptian Hieroglyphics | 600 to 700 |
Memphis | capital of Old Egypt |
upper and lower egypt united by *blank* in *blank* | Menes 3100 |
height of Khufu's pyramid | 481 feet |
# of stones in Khufu's pyramid | 2.3 million |
Where Pharoahs were buried in New Kingdom | Valley of the Kings |
Where the pyramids were built | Giza platuea |
# of pyramids in all | 80 |
the stone that brough Egyptian hieroglyphs back from the dead | Rosetta stone |
the person who translated the Rosetta stone | Frances Chapone |
Languages on Rosetta stone | Greek, Demotic (Common peoples hieroglyphs) (less fancy), and Egyptian holography |
The direction the Nile flows | South to North |
Delta | a low, marshy area of land that looks like the 4th symbol in the Greek alphabet |
Ptolemaic | The belief that everything revolves around the Earth |
Irrigation | diggins ditches to bring water to dry parts of land |
Predynastic | Before the dynasties of Egypt |
Pharoanic | The rulers of egypt |
Supernatural | Above a natural force |
Mystical | Inspiring wonder |
Sensationalist | A person who beleives hoo ha without proper evidence |
Reputable | Good reputation |
Heretic | A person who does not believe the normal religion |
incursions | An aggressive entrance into foreign territory; a raid or invasion. |
retaliation | To return like for like, especially evil for evil |
suzerainty | the position or authority of a suzerain |
concubine | woman who cohabits with a man without being legally married to him. (Generally bears children) They exist so the king can still marry for peace treaties |
obelisks | A tall, four-sided shaft of stone, usually tapered and monolithic, that rises to a pointed pyramidal top |
mercenaries | Hired for service in a foreign army. |
Start of flooding | Late June - Early July |
End of flooding | October |
Distance from Thebes to Memphis | 550 miles |
time to take an average trip | two weeks |
the king of egypts gods | amon-Ra (the sun god) |
akhenentan's god (Akhenentan was also amanhotep the 4th) | aton |
Article #2 thesis | Egyptians were the greatest organizers the world has seen |
Article #1 thesis | The Nile was the cornerstone of Egyptian life that provided necessities |
Article #3 thesis | The new Empire was a time of mass expansion. |
The core of egypts mercenaries | Nubians |
The 2 things that had to survive to grant immortality | There body and there name |